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Simon Van Booy
A dozen or so years ago, while living in a cottage in the woods with limited electricity and no heat, Simon Van Booy arrived with certainty at the realization that he wanted to be a writer — that writing was what he was most capable of doing. “Stories,” he believes, “are crucial, because they help people understand what has happened to them.” But writing and earning a living writing are two very different pursuits, and it would be almost a decade before he achieved the latter. During those years, he took jobs that gave him “the space to write” while “reading and writing with great voracity.”
Without the devotion to craft I developed then, I probably wouldn’t have been disciplined enough to continue writing.
Born in London and raised in rural Wales, Van Booy moved to New York City via Athens. Having long been drawn to the social and creative energy of the city, it would become home, and the place where he would find success as a writer. He has published two shor
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Simon Van Booy was born in Great Britain and grew up in rural Wales. He is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, Love Begins in Winter (winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award) and the novel, Everything Beautiful Began After. His first play, HINDSIGHT, was recently staged in New York City. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and was a finalist for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise. His work has been translated into thirteen languages. His latest novel, The Illusion of Separateness was released autumn 2012. In 2013, he founded Writers for Children, a project which helps young people build confidence in their storytelling abilities through annual awards.
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Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, including The Illusion of Separateness and The Presence of Absence. Simon is the editor of three volumes of philosophy and has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, and the BBC. His books have been translated into many languages and optioned for film. Raised in rural North Wales, he currently lives in New York where he is also a book editor and a volunteer E.M.T. crew chief.
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